The Dynamics of Political Crime

The Dynamics of Political Crime by Jeffrey Ian Ross Phd

The book , written by an expert in the field of political crime, provides the most comprehensive up to date discussion of the phenomenon of political crime. Jeffrey Ian Ross develops a new theory of political crime by reviewing the definition, concept and the preponderant `cause and effect′ of different types of political crime. It is primarily focused on the political crime that has taken place in the past three decades in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. This book is accessible and easy to read, it covers oppositional crimes such as sedition, treason, and espionage as well as political corruption, illegal surveillance, and human rights violations. It will be a useful for students and academics in criminology, political science, social policy and public administration.

"This book is not only an excellent and up-to-date review of the literature on political crime, but it also builds on the strengths of previous research in developing an interdisciplinary explanation that implicates individuals, situations, organizations, and resource adequaciesThe book is a well-informed, balanced, and compelling presentation of traditional and contemporary theoretical concerns that confront directly the interaction between antisystemic crime and state crime. This book is a superb engagement that finally moves crime research well beyond its ethnocentric borders toward a more inclusionary framework of comparative thought." -- Livy Visano
"Ross′s book will likely provide hours of discussion and opportunities for students and readers to deconstruct the text and to ascribe meaning to it." -- Christopher A. Simon

Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor with the School of Criminal Justice and a Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative and International Law at the University of Baltimore. He has conducted research, written, and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, policing, and corrections for over fifteen years. His work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as articles in popular magazines. He is the author of Making News of Police Violence (Praeger, 2000), co-author (with Stephen C. Richards) of Behind Bars: Surviving Prison (Macmillan, 2002), editor of Controlling State Crime (2nd Ed.) Transaction Books, 2000), Violence in Canada: Sociopolitical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1995), Cutting The Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice (Praeger, 1998), Varieties of State Crime and its Control (Criminal Justice Press, 1999), and the coeditor (with Stephen C. Richards) of Convict Criminology (Wadsworth, 2002). In 1986 Ross was the lead expert witness for the Senate of Canada′s Special Committee on Terrorism and Public Safety. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado and was a Social Science Analyst with the National Institute of Justice, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice before coming to the University of Baltimore.

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ISBN 13	9780803970458
ISBN 10	0803970455
Title	The Dynamics of Political Crime
Author	Jeffrey Ian Ross Phd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2002-11-19
Number of pages	208
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